Sonia pleads but Hazare not to give up as talks fail

His crusade against corruption triggering a virtual tsunami in India, social reformer Anna Hazare Thursday vowed to fast until death even as Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged him to end the agitation saying his demands will get the government’s “full attention”.

Addressing thousands of young and old at the protest venue here, Anna Hazare, who began his fast Tuesday, said he would not eat till the government gave a role to the civil society in drafting a stringent Lokpal bill.

“My fast will continue till there is life in my body,” he told a swelling crowd close to the Jantar Mantar in the heart of the city.